Biden admin. targeted 92 conservative groups, including Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA: senator
September 19, 2025
Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) said on Tuesday that the Biden administration had targeted 92 conservative groups, including Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA.
The Christian Post reports that the Biden administration’s Arctic Frost investigation was launched to examine the extent to which Donald Trump went to challenge the results of the 2020 election, instead went after the “entire Republican political apparatus.”
In his opening remarks at the hearing, Grassley said, “These new records show that Arctic Frost was much broader than just an electoral matter. The case was expanded to Republican organizations.”
Groups that were added to the Arctic Frost investigation included the Republican National Committee, the Republican Attorneys General Association and Turning Point USA, the conservative activist group co-founded by Charlie Kirk who was assassinated last week.
Grassley noted, “In other words, Arctic Frost wasn’t just a case to politically investigate Trump. It was the vehicle by which partisan FBI agents and Department of Justice prosecutors could achieve their partisan ends and improperly investigate the entire Republican political apparatus.”
According to the Christian Post, the Arctic Frost investigation was opened in April 2022 and coordinated by the FBI and other federal entities with Special counsel Jack Smith being assigned to the investigation in November 2022.
Smith would indict Trump on 4 felony charges related to the January 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol in response to doubts over the outcome of the 2020 election.
Smith charged Trump with conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, conspiracy to defraud the United States and exploiting the Jan. 6 protest to remain in power.
Trump successfully argued that his actions were protected by “presidential immunity” and the U.S. Supreme Court agreed, issuing a 6-3 ruling in July 2024 that presidents have absolute immunity from prosecution for official acts undertaken while in office.
In November 2024, Smith filed a motion to drop the election interference case shortly after Trump won a second term as president with a judge agreeing just hours later.
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